*The New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia*
The 2004 (part 2) Final Call for Papers - **Special Issue on Accessible
Hypermedia and Multimedia**
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished papers electronically
to the Guest Editors at the e-mail addresses below. There is no explicit
restriction on length but authors who wish to submit a long article
should contact the Guest Editors prior to submission. In addition to
full papers we will also consider smaller Technical Notes of 3500 words
maximum - typically reporting on a technical achievement or
implementation in an early state of research. Open theme submissions
should be submitted electronically to the NRHM Editor at the e-mail
address below.
*Initial submissions for reviewing* can be sent in PDF, Postscript, RTF
or HTML following any conventional readable document format. For
Instructions to Authors for final submission of accepted papers please
see the Taylor & Francis Website
<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp>.
* Submission deadline: 28 June, 2004
* Acceptance notification: 16 August, 2004
* Final manuscripts due: 20 September, 2004
*Accessible Hypermedia and Multimedia*
Guest Editors:
Simon Harper, Yeliz Yesilada, Carole Goble (a-nrhm @ lists.man.ac.uk)
Conventional accessibility research has tended to be single disciplinary
in nature. However, we are concerned that this focus on a single
participant group prevents the crosspollination of ideas, needs, and
technologies from other related but separate fields. This special issue
will be decidedly cross-disciplinary and will bring together users,
accessibility experts, graphic designers, and technologists from
academia and industry to address how accessibility can be supported.
Submissions should aim to bridge academia, commerce, and industry and we
hope that arguments encompassing a range of beliefs across the
design-accessibility spectrum will be forthcoming. This issue aims to
address layout, structure, and presentation from the viewpoint of
accessible hypermedia, multimedia, and good visual design. It is part
inspired by the most recent workshop (http://w4a.man.ac.uk) on web
accessibility that was held at the World Wide Web Conference (New York,
USA, May 2004). To follow up on this workshop, this special issue
attempts to focus on a number of critical issues listed below that were
in the focus of the workshop. However, the spectrum of possible topics
is not limited to these areas. The guest editors welcome any archival
quality work related to accessible hypermedia and multimedia.
* Technological advances to support accessible hypermedia and multimedia.
* End user tools for accessibility.
* Design methodologies for accessible hypermedia and multimedia.
* Accessibility evaluation techniques and tools.
* Accessibility evaluation guidelines.
* Adaptive applications and graphics.
* Tools and techniques enabling authors to create accessible
layout/content.
* Psychology of end user experiences and scenarios.
* Innovative scripting/markup languages that support accessible
hypermedia and multimedia.
* Universally accessible graphical design approaches.
* Graphical transcoding techniques.
* Accessible graphic formats and tools for their creation.
Please contact the Guest Editors if you have any questions on the scope
of the call or require further information.
Guest Editors:
Simon Harper, Yeliz Yesilada, Carole Goble (a-nrhm @ lists.man.ac.uk)
NRHM Editor Douglas Tudhope - dstudhope @ glam.ac.uk
Associate Editor Daniel Cunliffe - djcunlif @ glam.ac.uk
NRHM is a refereed journal covering research on practical and
theoretical developments in hypermedia, interactive multimedia and
related technologies. Two issues a year review and explore a topical
theme from diverse perspectives. The main theme for NRHM 2004 (part 2)
is 'Accessible Hypermedia and Multimedia'. We are also continuing the
open topic sub-theme for high quality papers meeting NRHM's scope in
general.
NRHM has recently been acquired by Taylor & Francis
<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13614568.asp> and will now
appear in both print and digital formats. We are particularly interested
in exploring possibilities for the digital medium, for example digital
video clips illustrating environments, data or interfaces discussed in
the paper. Authors are encouraged to contact the Editor regarding other
proposals for related digital material.